Sexual Violence in the Digital Age: Replicating and Augmenting Harm, Victimhood and Blame

This article examines some of the complexities and tensions which lie at intersection popular official constructions technology-assisted sexual violence (TA-SV). It argues that many core contextual understandings victimhood harm underpin cultural legal framing offline forms are not only reproduced but augmented in virtual settings. Drawing on debates from critical victimology, TA-SV amplifies traditional ‘victim’ ‘offender’ behaviours concerning crime. In so doing, it highlights particular challenges around: a) ‘ideal victim’; (b) responsibilisation blame; c) victim-offender-bystander continuums emerge within discourses TA-SV, also through use digital evidence trial. The concludes by examining broader implications for academic responding to age.